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Re: [PATCH] Add pg_get_policy_ddl() function to reconstruct CREATE POLICY statement

Akshay Joshi <akshay.joshi@enterprisedb.com> — 2025-10-16T11:47:22Z

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi. I still can not compile your v2.
>
> ../../Desktop/pg_src/src1/postgres/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c:
> In function ‘get_formatted_string’:
>
> ../../Desktop/pg_src/src1/postgres/src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c:13770:9:
> error: function ‘get_formatted_string’ might be a candidate for
> ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format]
> 13770 |         appendStringInfoVA(buf, fmt, args);
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>

I’m relatively new to PostgreSQL development. I’m working on setting up the
CI pipeline and will try to fix all warnings.

>
> Maybe you can register your patch on https://commitfest.postgresql.org/
> then it will run all CI tests on all kinds of OS.
>
> row security policy qual and with_check_qual can contain sublink/subquery.
> but pg_get_expr can not cope with sublink/subquery.
>
> see pg_get_expr comments below:
>  * Currently, the expression can only refer to a single relation, namely
>  * the one specified by the second parameter.  This is sufficient for
>  * partial indexes, column default expressions, etc.  We also support
>  * Var-free expressions, for which the OID can be InvalidOid.
>
> see commit 6867f96 and
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20211219205422.GT17618%40telsasoft.com
>
> I guess (because I can not compile, mentioned above):
> "ERROR:  expression contains variables"
> can be triggered by the following setup:
>
> create table t(a int);
> CREATE POLICY p1 ON t AS RESTRICTIVE FOR ALL
> USING (a IS NOT NULL AND (SELECT 1 = 1 FROM pg_rewrite WHERE
> pg_get_function_arg_default(ev_class, 1) !~~ pg_get_expr(ev_qual, 0,
> false)));
> SELECT pg_get_policy_ddl('t', 'p1', true);
>

The above example works fine with my patch
[image: Screenshot 2025-10-16 at 5.08.10 PM.png]


>
> You can also check my patch at
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6054/
> which similarly needs to build the POLICY definition for reconstruction.
>
> see RelationBuildRowSecurity, checkExprHasSubLink also.
>